People Of Color Break Barriers In White-Dominated, 'Impenetrable' Alcoholic Beverage Industry
Shae Frichette and Jackie Summers discuss breaking racial barriers in the growing alcoholic beverage market.
Do you know where your wine comes from? What about your beer or liquor?
These industries bring in billions of dollars in revenue each year — and are almost exclusively white-dominated industries.
Jackie Summers is one of the entrepreneurs who has broken through. In 2010, he survived a cancer scare, which inspired him to launch Sorel Liqueur. It’s a type of liqueur that nearly every Caribbean family makes, he says.
“Everyone thinks theirs is the best,” he says. “I thought mine was the best.”
What Summers didn’t know was
